Thrall, a Zhentarim spy, encouraged him.

"Are you sure we can defeat Sarevok?"

There was strong suspicion in Iamonn's tone.

You must know that when they were escaping, the two sides met once at the gate of Flame Fist Castle.

In the end, Sarevok didn't even do it himself, and his men alone beat the shit out of the team members.

Aberdare rushed forward with his giant sword in both hands, but was easily forced back by his sword. Even the magic missiles hitting the opponent failed to cause any obvious damage.

As a fairly self-aware girl, Imoen does not think that directly attacking Sarevok is a wise choice.

Montaro shrugged his shoulders indifferently: "It depends on human nature! The army of Zhentil Fort is standing behind us. As long as Sarevok can be held back, the soldiers who rush up later can surround this guy.

Beaten to death."

You don't need to ask to know that the reason why he and Thrall are so active is because they have received Ximanmeng's instructions to let the two sons of Baal finally meet on the battlefield.

But Aberdare knew nothing about this and thought his teammates were encouraging him, so he immediately responded with a grin: "What you said makes sense. It all depends on man! I don't believe how powerful Sarevok is.

.As long as we work together, we will definitely make him pay the price of blood and death for plotting against us."

"There is also a reward! Fuzor Chamberry has offered a reward of 30,000 gold coins for Sarevok's head." Thrall added enthusiastically.

"Ha! This is really good news! Killing Sarevok can not only avenge the enemy, but also double the gold coins we lost before."

Aberdare clenched his fists excitedly.

After all, he was still worried about what happened when Xi Manmeng stabbed him to death.

Seeing a few people excitedly discussing how to kill Sarevok and earn a large bounty, Jasira sighed helplessly, turned to her husband and asked: "Dear, what do you think of us?"

How should I choose this time?"

Khalid smiled bitterly, shook his head, and stammered in response: "I...I don't know either. But...but we can't live up to Gillian's trust, and we must at least protect his adopted son."

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"You're right. No matter what happens, we can't betray his trust."

After saying this, Jasila rubbed her cheeks hard twice, and then turned her attention to Atio, the white bear cub who had been following the team for a long time.

She knew very well that if something unexpected happened, then this beast king and its yet-to-be-shown master would be the last trump card.

As the situation between Zhentil Keep and Baldur's Gate becomes more and more tense, and the final decisive battle is about to break out, far in the south of Amn's capital Askatra, the Trade Alliance's first full-member parliament officially announced in Fortune

Convened under the auspices of the Goddess Church.

As the initiator and the actual controller behind it, Zuo Si explained his vision of creating a unified market and currency in front of all representatives.

The most important thing is that he successfully persuaded everyone to cancel the currency he originally issued and switch to a new currency system with the profile of Watkin, the goddess of wealth.

Including three types of gold coins, large, medium and small, two types of platinum coins, six types of silver coins and four types of copper coins.

The reason why it is so complicated is mainly to break down the weight and purchasing power of each currency.

This prevents the situation where precious metal gold coins are often cut in half or even more during the transaction process.

The participating towns looked at the samples sent by servants, as well as the exquisite patterns and alliance marks, and they all showed expressions of satisfaction.

At least in terms of currency quality, they can't fault it at all.

Some people even wonder whether using such exquisite coinage techniques to make cheap rust-proof copper coins is too fussy and will result in a loss of money.

In this regard, Zuo Si just wants to say that you know nothing about the production capacity and cost reduction of large-scale industrial assembly lines.

Cost?

The complete set of coin minting machines he bought on another earth didn't cost a penny at all. It was completely sponsored by "enthusiastic" capitalists, drug dealers and warlords.

The electrical energy that maintains daily operations also comes from the elemental plane.

Except that it took a little time and materials to build the power grid, there is basically nothing else that requires money.

As for labor costs...

Sorry!

The floating city already uses Shuoyou fully-automatic robots that don’t need to rest, let alone pay wages, and multifunctional plug-and-play corpse-embedded creatures.

Even the raw materials are scavenged from Mirrodin Time and Space for free.

What Zuo Si paid was only a small part of the food, water and animal husbandry products produced in some floating city worlds in exchange.

Since the floating city world does not have a large population at all, not even one percent of the food harvested by large automated farmlands can be eaten every year, and it is all piled up in warehouses.

This is why he never worried that the war would lead to the desolation of large areas of land from the Dragon Coast to Baldur's Gate and eventually lead to famine.

As long as Zuo Si is willing, he can provide enough food to feed all intelligent creatures in the entire Faerûn continent at any time for several years.

In addition, the Mirrodin space-time is not only rich in various alloys and magic metals, but also ordinary metals such as copper, gold, and silver are of very high purity, and the purity when dug out is basically more than 95%.

Ore?

Sorry, this is a high-purity finished product. It can be put into use directly after a little melting and refining.

Moreover, under the illumination of the five mana core suns, all metal resources will be continuously regenerated.

If you do anything casually, you can easily bring down a world that uses precious metals as its base currency.

Therefore, Zuo Si confidently assured everyone that he would provide sufficient currency supply to ensure financial liquidity, and at the same time establish churches of the goddess of wealth, Woking, in various towns, and provide a series of services including lending, off-site deposits and withdrawals, etc.<

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When he finished his speech, the entire scene burst into applause.

Both the town representatives and the people from the Goddess of Wealth Church were deeply attracted by this grand blueprint and saw a scene of prosperity and wealth.

In fact, as more and more airship lines are opened, many towns and cities have already enjoyed the huge benefits it brings.

As we all know, in a world where transportation and productivity are extremely backward.

Anything traded across regions cannot be ordinary daily necessities, but must be high value-added products.

This is just like before entering the industrial age, European colonists on Earth took ships to sea for colonial expansion, mainly to obtain luxury goods.

Only those things that are small in size, of high value, easy to store, and can be sold at high prices among the upper classes in Europe are eligible to be carried into the cabin.

For example, silk, tea, porcelain, spices, gold, silver, expensive wood, fur, gemstones, etc.

Even the notorious black slaves are an out-and-out luxury product in the American market where labor is scarce, and they are definitely not something that ordinary people at the bottom can afford.

It was not until the advent of the industrial age that European colonial expansion quickly transitioned from occupying several ports and strongholds along the coast just to obtain luxury goods to obtaining raw materials and markets.

Whether it was Great Britain, which established an empire on which the sun never sets, or France, which was nicknamed Gaul because it occupied a large area of ​​African colonies, it was basically during this period that they began to build colonies, station troops, and set up administrative agencies.

, and gradually bring it completely under your control.

But now, Zuo Si uses the airship to directly skip the long-distance transaction process that can only be a luxury product, and abruptly reduces the transportation cost from the sky to the ground.

This means that the people who can benefit from the trade alliance are not just merchants or nobles, but also a large number of ordinary people.

High-speed commodity circulation means that it will stimulate production enthusiasm, create wealth and value, and ultimately achieve the goal of economic prosperity.

Aribes, the first paladin of Neverwinter who came to the meeting on behalf of Lord Nasir, immediately raised his hand and asked after reading the currency samples: "Your Excellency Soth! If all currencies are uniformly issued by the Alliance in the future,

So what do we do with the tax gap we used to get through coinage?”

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"Don't worry about this.

After the inspection, we will distribute a sum of money every year to those towns that already have the ability to mint coins as compensation.

However, this amount of money will not continue to be distributed, but will decrease every year until it is completely cancelled.

Because I believe that with the prosperity of the market and the growth of trade, this negligible gap will soon be filled by more and more taxes."

Zuo Si gave the explanation with a smile.

Ever since he learned about the precious metal content of Faerûn's currency, he knew very well how profitable seigniorage was.

And the larger a regime covers an area, has a wider scope of influence, and has a prosperous market, the more it can obtain astonishing financial supplements from seigniorage.

No town or country would be willing to give up the power to mint its own coins.

So Zuo Si directly chose to make an exchange of interests, first giving a sum of money to Neverwinter City and the Silver Moon Alliance in exchange for the loss of seigniorage.

As for Waterdeep...

Those masked lords, guild leaders and nobles are still arguing with each other, and they have not been able to reach an agreement until now.

Upon hearing that there was compensation, Aribes immediately nodded with satisfaction: "Thank you very much! I think I have no problem."

"No problem for me either!"

"Me too!"

Alustriel and Kui Lu also expressed their opinions.

Especially the latter, who is a dark elf, caused a lot of confusion when she first appeared. It was not until she learned that she was the chosen one of the goddess of magic that one of the seven sisters of the North gave up.

The rest, like the chancellor who was present on behalf of Shane VII, Shaud Tarowan, and Eric, the titular ruler of the Nelanthal Islands and Luskan, were basically just two yes-men.
To be continued...